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StillBurningInside t1_iy65c7k wrote

Reply to comment by Orlando1701 in Mothers and wives of conscripts from Russian Far East to be sent to east of Ukraine by HarakenQQ

In all fairness, that doesn't really matter now does it?

the US soldier is a volunteer, not some guy kidnapped and sent to die with only a week of training.

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Dry_Magician6870 t1_iy74eqx wrote

I think that you don't understand how few people who end up in the military have a choice or volunteer because they want to serve. They volunteer because they have few to no other options to support themselves.

Military recruiters know this and swarm those high schools/areas. I went to a high school in rural CA with less than 25% of most graduating class doing any post secondary schooling due mostly to economics. We had at least one branch of the military on our campus every day of the week. My husband, who grew up in a wealthy bay area suburb never saw a military recruiter on campus. Period.

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